Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

Re:Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" by aristus on Monday February 23, 2009 @03:28PM (#492165)

Not quite -- the underlying concept is a "company" in the sense of a troupe, band, eg "The King's Men", the "Dorrit's Chalk-Weavers", "Harold & Sons".

The idea of a "corporate person" is much more recent, like 1880's, and I think started in the US.

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Re:Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" by chiffonade on Monday February 23, 2009 @04:04PM (#492219)

No, you're wrong. The concept of corporate singularity started in the 1600s in England.

From wikipedia:

In the late seventeenth century, Stewart Kyd, the author of the first treatise on corporate law in English, defined a corporation as,

"a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested, by policy of the law, with the capacity of acting, in several respects, as an individual, particularly of taking and granting property..."

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Re:Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" by jacquesm on Monday February 23, 2009 @06:05PM (#492378)

actually, it started in Holland with the V.O.C.

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Re:Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" by chiffonade on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @11:54AM (#493261)

I said that it started in the 1600s in England, not that they invented it.

And don't be facetious, everyone knows the Dutch were very innovative during the slave trade.

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